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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

"Obamacare Killed My Sister"

From Ricochet.com. Yes, it's "anecdotal". The same type of evidence that Democrats used to help force the ACA upon us.

My sister Julie had health insurance that was deemed unsuitable by Darth
Obama. Now she is dead. We will bury her on Wednesday. My brother wrote a piece
explaining the sad tale here:

Julie, her husband, and four children were covered by a medical plan they
liked, and had been promised they could keep by President Obama. But like so
many others in this country, her family’s private health care policy was
cancelled because of the Affordable Care Act. So my sister and her family
struggled through the expensive and incompetently designed Obamacare website to
find a new policy. Unfortunately, while they waited for their new Obama-approved
healthcare plan to finally kick in, my little sister fell ill. She couldn’t keep
down solid food. She should have gone to a doctor. But she toughed it out, as
many people do, until her new coverage would kick in on February 2. She and her
husband didn’t have a lot of money, so she didn’t want to incur what she thought
were avoidable medical expenses.But she didn’t make it. It turns out that, unbeknownst to her, she wasn’t
suffering from an upset stomach or food poisoning, but a badly blocked gall
bladder that had become highly infected. Her body went into septic shock just
two days before her Obamacare policy would have kicked in. Her kidneys shut
down. She went to the emergency room where, after heroic efforts, a marvelous
medical team managed to stabilize her condition. I saw Julie that day for
several hours. She could not move, or speak, but a tear trickled down her check
when she saw the eldest daughter of her four children. After I left, hoping for
the best, I learned the next day that her gentle heart stopped beating around
4:00 a.m.So, while the White House sends out talking points to the talking heads who
proclaim Americans will be better off because Obamacare forced them off of
inadequate health care plans, my family knows better.

Our family is in shock that an otherwise healthy 54-year-old woman is now
gone. I guess she was just one of the proles sacrificed for the greater good of
the state.